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Renaissance Flashcards

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Boccaccio

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The Decameron.

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Chaucer

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Canterbury Tales.

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Dante

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Father of modern Italian.

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Machiavelli

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Where the end justifies the means.

The Prince.

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Rabelais

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Gar Pen.

Satirized education politics and philosophy.

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Montaigne

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Skepticism.

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Cervantes

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Ridiculed feudal society. DQ.

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Shakespeare

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The greatest poet of all time

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Milton

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“Paradise Lost”

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Moliere

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“The Misanthrope”

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Giotto

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Frescoes

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Donatello

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Carved busts

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Da Vinci

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Renaissance man

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Michelangelo

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Renaissance genius

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Titian

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Used vivid colors.

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Palestrina

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Composer of church music

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El Greco

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Greek who settled in Spain. Painted religious scenes and church officials

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Valasquez

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Painter to King Philip

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Hals

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Painted portraits of ordinary peoples and everyday life

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Rembrandt

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Greatest painter Northern Renaissance

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Rubens

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Used brilliant colors. Depicted action.

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Durer

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Wood and metal

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Holbein

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Painter for Henry. Life like portraits of famous people

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Copernicus

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Rediscovers the heliocentric theory.

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Vesalius

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Anatomy

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Bacon

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Observation and experimentation

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Galileo

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Improved the telescope

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Harvey

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Blood circulated through the body

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Middle Ages

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Faith.
Authority.
Tradition.
Life is only a preparation for the here after. Preoccupation with religion and church

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Renaissance

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Reason
Question authority
Free inquiry 
Stressed individual 
Approved of worldly pleasure
Life itself is worthwhile
Paid attention to matters of secular society
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Descartes

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Optics

Analytical geometry

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Leeuwenhoek

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Perfected the microscope

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Newton

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Law of motion and gravitation. Invented calculus.

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